Happy New Year! Guets neus! Καλή Χρονιά! ... and 10 Years of ch-athens!

So today is the first day of the year 2015. I wish all of my readers
(probably you could count them on one hand) a happy new year, with good
health and lots of happyness. A friend asked me lately if I'd considered
2014 a good year ("on a scale of 1 to 10..."). Personally there were
some tough times in 2014, but in the end it ended quite well. I wish all
of you that you may have a year 2015 that you can grade high on that "1
to 10" scale at the end!

At the same time it's the 10th birthday of this weblog. For many of
these years, I used to do New Year's posts with statistics about visits
and all that. This year I don't have any statistics. The reason is that
in February the hardware of the server failed. For some time I didn't
get my data back (at first it appeared that the failure was total, in
the end I was able to recover everything). I still have the access logs,
but "didn't get around" to setting up any webstats on it. I guess it
just wasn't that important - like when you move house and there are
still a few unpacked boxes a few months later, you probably didn't need
that stuff.

For many months of 2014 I just managed to write one post per month.
Again, probably it wasn't so important to me. As for the posts there
were, in a large part this weblog has turned to a cycling theme. Which
is no surprise, it just reflects the newfound interest in cycling in my
life. I posted a few "ride reports" about larger rides (including my
first "brevet" ride in January). I could have posted more ride reports,
but sometimes I felt it would overwhelm the other content. Not sure if
that notion holds true, but in fact there wasn't much other content
anyway.

So in those 10 years I wrote 1337 posts. For a geek, that is a really
funny number. How much the blog writing has slowed down, you can see in
the fact that after 5 years I had already 1000 posts, so only 337 in the
second five years. At least I can claim that the posting frequency has
picked up lately, December was the "busiest" month of the year 2014.

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And with an interest in digital life and the feeling of change in a big city.
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